Prof. Thompson’s research interests include intuitive judgments, thinking and decision-making, and metacognition. She uses experimental procedure and eye-tracking for tracing thinking and reasoning processes. She proposed the initial Meta-Reasoning framework for explaining how people engage in analytic thinking rather than relying on their gut feelings. Prof. Thompson is currently Past President of the Canadian Society of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Thinking & Reasoning. 

Professor Toplak’s research is on judgment, decision-making and rational thinking, including their associations with individual differences in cognitive abilities and performance-based measures of executive function. Most recently, she has published a book entitled: Cognitive sophistication and the development of judgment and decision-making. This book integrates her research from a 9 year longitudinal study on the developmental trajectories of these competencies. Her research has been informed by using participants across the lifespan and with special populations, including youth with ADHD, young offenders and pathological gamblers.

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Dr. Undorf’s research focuses on human metacognition and metamemory. People’s knowledge about their own cognitive and memory processes is essential for effective self-regulation of cognition and behavior. In her recent research, Dr. Undorf has combined experimental and statistical methods to reveal that nonanalytic, experience-based processes and analytic, theory-based processes both contribute to metamemory. Moreover, by applying theories and methods from judgment and decision-making research to metacognitive judgments, her research has provided novel approaches to assessing the basis and accuracy of metamemory and to measuring idiosyncratic influences on metamemory.

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